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Handmade drawing tools made by Henrik Drescher's students laid out on white: spoons, sticks, sponge-tipped rods, taped filmstrip, feathers and bound rag brushes John Berger in a patterned shirt against a flat blue ground, a still from Ways of Seeing, BBC 1972 Sketchbook 44, 'Things that happen at night', last night in Fenouillet, 27 July 2012: four ballpoint vignettes — a hill against storm light, wind through a dark window, a man in darkness, a figure day-for-night Still from Shadow of the Colossus: Wander on his black horse Agro wheels before a towering, moss-grown stone colossus Duchamp's Air de Paris: a glass ampoule like a teardrop ornament, hooked at the top, hanging on a thread — fifty cc of Paris Drawing on a torn, burn-edged scrap: a pencil eye weeping a lattice of small blue teardrops, with the words something I don't trust written along the lid Small jade plant with plump oval leaves in a terracotta pot with saucer, on a red tiled windowsill by an open window The Aristodikos kouros, ca. 510-500 BC, National Archaeological Museum Athens inv. 3938. The hands are lost but the stubs of the two struts that braced them to the thighs survive at hip height. Photograph by Gary Todd, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons. Catalogue text inventorying Louise Bourgeois's 1997 cell Passage Dangereux, room by room: cuffs, mirrors, hanging chairs, glass spheres, a bronze bull Grayscale digital painting of two drooping peony buds, ink-dark leaves against a smudged white sky The Graveyard in black and white: the old woman with her cane walking the central path between crosses toward the chapel Cover of sketchbook 30: a hanging cluster of pale bell-like flowers painted over turquoise and gold wash Tippi Hedren lighting her cigarette from a match held in a crow's beak — The Birds publicity photo Twitter exchange from February 2012: Auriea tells Hasan Niyazi she wants to make games with metaphysical catharsis; he wagers such a game is two console generations away; she replies 'we will be working to bring the future to you TODAY!' 3ds Max panel, Editable Mesh with Element selected: 462 faces chosen, Surface Properties open to set the material ID Cover of sketchbook 4: black leather-look book collaged with a blurred self-portrait photo in a fractal frame, lettered in green — 'Pseudo Quasi Real' and 'chaos is my life' Back cover of sketchbook 18: a photograph of an open hand pressed under waxed translucent paper, everything tea-stained and creased Black-and-white still of highway signs — Holman Correctional Facility 2, Fountain Correctional Facility 3 — a helicopter overhead, and a torrent of red lyric text running below Leonardo da Vinci drapery study: brush and grey tempera on linen of heavy cloth over a kneeling figure, the folds modeled in white heightening The Archive to Come at Telematic gallery: a dark room where a projection of two golden particle faces hovers on blue between bright screens on the walls Sketchbook 41 spread of figure-drawing sessions: pencil studies of a standing model bending forward above, quicker red ballpoint crouching and kneeling nudes below EarthBound ('The War Against Giygas!') running in an SNES emulator on a Nintendo DS, menu on the lower screen Sketchbook 48 spread in pencil: a bowl of fruit rendered in soft graphite, a week's copying schedule (Centaur, Diana, Rivers, Tiber), and a dark bowed head — 'let go of the photographic eye, see the form' Sketchbook 42, page 66: watercolor and pencil of a sleeper's face resting on a yellow-washed arm, the head faint graphite, the raised forearm a wedge of gold Background tile of thin gold threads wandering and crossing over a white field Keith Arnatt-style photograph: a dense white cloud of smoke hanging between green trees in a summer forest Cover of sketchbook 22A: a striped box drawn in black ink on pink board with 'present' written in cursive across it, signed Auriea Harvey Scrawled white handwriting on black, from Arkham Asylum: 'I don't know how many times I have to say this: I am sane… There's been a TERRIBLE mistake.' MTAA's Simple Net Art Diagram, ca. 1997: two clip-art computers joined by a cable, a red lightning bolt at the midpoint labeled 'The art happens here' Sketchbook 35 diary spread: close-up of a dalmatian-spotted jacket and a zigzag-lipped fish face with a button eye, opposite a loose contour figure climbing The colossal marble Medusa from behind: heavy braids of snakes wind over the sleeping head, one serpent knotted around the mass Dancing drawing in black ink: splattered vertical strokes and a long arc of dots crossing over a broad smeared wash near the bottom of the sheet Four runway looks with furry animal masks — horned goat and sheep heads over tartan coats and prints Paint coverage across a stroke, before and after — measured from the colour buffer William Henry Harvey, in glasses and an American Legion cap stitched with United States flags, raises a leather-gloved hand to its brim A gray kitten sits bolt upright on the studio's wide plank floor between the piano, its stool, and the open pine door Night desk: laptop and iMac both showing The Path (Ruby leaning in headlights, a striped-sock scene), the logo glowing on a Wacom below, Michael behind the far monitor Book paragraph on Mozart's finances, highlighted pink: 'neither he nor his wife had a good grasp of managing finances… they lurched from crisis to crisis' Museum vitrine with a device to measure the scent of a flower: white blossoms sealed in a glass bottle, tubing running to a small wooden pump box beside a porcelain jar Blurry cellphone photo from Mom: Canada geese grazing on a sunlit lawn at Eagle Creek, a green pond and trees behind A carpet of round nasturtium leaves with a few hidden orange flowers, seen from above Hands holding open James Jean's Fables covers book: 'No. 67 The Good Prince' with knight and giants, and 'No. 43 Arabian Nights (and Days)' djinn spread Sketchbook 41, page 92: layered ballpoint study of a seated figure with rolled sleeves, hands clasping reins or cords, with small thumbnails noting 'full scene VR view' and jump points Bernini's Rape of Proserpina, close: Pluto's fingers sinking into her marble thigh and waist, stone made flesh Sketchbook 48 spread: pink-pencil dancer with raised arm over notes on the Musée Carnavalet — 'Paris explained by Parisians, collected by a madman' — and the Musée Cognacq-Jay's Boucher pastels Sideways photo in the Pisa Baptistery: the bronze Saint John the Baptist raising a cross-tipped staff atop the font's spired Gothic canopy Old mattress and new, side by side in black and white: the sagging striped one leaning, the taut white Sultan standing straight Sketchbook 39, digital painting: a hollow-eyed figure in dusky red with long dark hair and thin wire rabbit ears, leaning forward in darkness Sketchbook 44 spread: ballpoint plane trees and a mossy fountain, with scribbled motion studies of dancers noted from Les Ballets C de la B's 'Oude King' — 'human range of motion', 'over pain madness'

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